APIs, Networking & Integration Topics
API design, management, and integration patterns including REST, GraphQL, and other protocols. Covers API contract design, versioning strategies, error handling, idempotency, deprecation planning, and SDK/integration frameworks. Includes system-to-system integration, webhook patterns, and integration platform considerations. Excludes network infrastructure and network-layer protocols (see Network Architecture under Cloud & Infrastructure or a dedicated networking category if needed).
Solution Architecture and System Integration
Designing end to end solutions that integrate multiple systems and services. Topics include API design and compatibility, protocol choices, data flow and transformation, middleware and orchestration, handling partial failures and eventual consistency, versioning and backward compatibility, and non functional requirements such as performance and security. Emphasis on mapping business requirements to technical solutions and integration strategies.
API Strategy and Integration Architecture
Designing integration strategies using application programming interface first approaches, event driven architectures, and partner integration patterns. Topics include API governance, versioning, authentication and authorization, rate limiting, contract design, webhooks versus polling trade offs, and how integration patterns enable composability across systems such as marketing, customer relationship management, and analytics platforms. Candidates should explain how to choose integration approaches that balance reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
Integration Architecture for Digital Transformation
Design integration strategies and architectures for transformation systems that must interoperate with enterprise systems such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and human capital systems. Assess API first patterns, event driven architectures, middleware and gateway approaches, canonical data models, synchronization and reconciliation strategies, data mapping and transformation, security and authentication models, monitoring and error handling, and migration approaches for cutover and coexistence.